Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today the launch of the first clinically approved, highly-sensitive in-situ hybridisation (ISH) test, the VENTANA® Kappa and Lambda Dual ISH mRNA Probe Cocktail assay, in countries accepting the CE Mark. The test is designed to help pathologists differentiate a B-cell malignancy from a normal, reactive response to an infection.

Recently, Shanghai Ranking officially released their 2024 Chinese University Rankings, which include 810 majors, 93 professional categories and 12 professional disciplines.

Thermo Fisher Scientific said Tuesday that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Singapore’s National University Hospital (NUH) and Singapore RNA technology company Mirxes to develop and validate next-generation sequencing assays for early cancer detection in the country.

Roche has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 501(k) clearance for the diagnostic use of its whole-slide imaging system, Roche Digital Pathology Dx.

In 2019, China's IVD market size exceeded 71 billion CNY, with a year-on-year growth of 15%, of which, the biochemical diagnosis market accounted for 23%; in 2020, China's IVD market size exceeded 100 billion CNY, of which, the biochemical diagnosis market accounted for 18%. Although the biochemical market share in 2020 is lower than that in 2019, the market size in 2020 has increased by nearly two billion CNY compared with 2019.

Chinese biotech MGI Tech and France’s SeqOne Genomics are partnering to advance an end-to-end solution for genomic testing.

Siemens Healthineers said on Monday that the firm has received CE marking for a prognostic blood test that the firm plans to launch later this year in Europe to aid the management of multiple sclerosis.

Stay up-to-date with the latest happenings in the rapidly evolving field of In Vitro Diagnostics (IVD) in China.

The US Food and Drug Administration has granted Emergency Use Authorization to Healgen Scientific for a point-of-care combination antigen test for COVID-19 and influenza A/B.

Roche announced this week that its Ventana PD-L1 (SP263) assay received a CE-IVDR label expansion for use as a companion diagnostic with Regeneron's Libtayo (cemiplimab) in combination with platinum-based doublet chemotherapy in lung cancer patients.

Challenge Works said Wednesday that it has awarded an £8 million prize to Sweden's Sysmex Astrego for its development of a point-of-care urinary tract infection test that delivers antibiotic susceptibility information in 45 minutes.

QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced the release of a new version of its clinical decision support software, QIAGEN Clinical Insight Interpret (QCI Interpret), that brings significant performance and scalability enhancements tailored for high-throughput, next-generation sequencing (NGS) labs moving to larger test panels and higher test volumes. The latest version of QCI Interpret introduces improvements that accelerate critical lab performance criteria for turn-around-time, diagnostic yield and quality results.

Myriad Genetics announced Tuesday that GlaxoSmithKline is sponsoring a program to boost access to homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) diagnostic testing for high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) patients in nine countries via Myriad's MyChoice HRD Plus and MyChoice CDx Plus tests.

Foundation Medicine, Inc., today announced that it has formed a collaboration with Repare Therapeutics, a leading clinical-stage precision oncology company, to provide prospective genomic profiling to patients in Repare’s ongoing Phase I/Ib MYTHIC study (NCT04855656) of lunresertib alone or in combinations in genomically-defined patient populations. The companies are also exploring opportunities to develop FoundationOne®CDx, a tissue-based comprehensive genomic profiling test, as a companion diagnostic for the lunresertib program.

The 26th International Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine - IFCC WorldLab Congress organized jointly with the 17th Congress of the Arab Federation of Clinical Biology, 10th Annual Meeting of the Saudi Society for Clinical Chemistry and 8th International and United Arab Emirates Genetic Disorders Conference successfully convened in Dubai from 26-30 May 2024.